My doors came with locks i did not fit them, or spec them in any way. Much in the same way it came with a letterbox by default also. I also do not bother using its double locking feature or having a chain on the door like many as with a quick swift boot that would still be defeated easily. Thus the “extra security” achieves little

No i do not lock my car, the car does that itself when the keyless entry fob is more than a few metres from the car. I have no choice in the matter. If it did not have that feature then me locking it or not would depend on the cars value and terms of my insurance. If it was a complete shed of a car that cost me next to nothing then i probably for the most part would not bother.

Yes i use a seatbelt not by choice but by law, if i had a classic car from the era before seatbelts with no legal requirement to wear one then no i would not wear one.

DESPITE THE ABOVE BEFORE YOU RESPOND
I do agree with you about being able to take steps to protect yourself or things in general, however given we do not know what security if any was broken at Talk Talk when the hack took place or if their security is any worse or better than the majority of ISPs it is impossible to say if they did or did not take reasonable steps to protect itself in the first place.

Unless of course you know Talk Talk systems in detail and can explain what security measure they have/had and do not have. In that case i am happy to listen.

Sony as an example have beefed up security each time they are hacked, you even at one point now (normally after firmware upgrades) on the PS3 have to use 2 factor authentication to sign in….. They still get hacked though.

Would you still be calling for Didos head if Talk Talk had NSA levels of encryption to protect customers and still got hacked? If not i fail to understand why as the result would be the same. As the proverbial goes, poop happens, BT, O2 and many other big telcos have been hacked, i doubt any of them had the highest grade encryption and protection you can get though.

Do you have any locks on your external doors in your house? If so why?
Do you lock your car? If so why?
Do you use a seatbelt? If so why?

I could go on but hopefully you see the point (if not I’m worried) you cannot fully protect or prevent things happening (in IT or in general life), but you can take reasonable steps to limit the chances of them happening and impact.

Its impossible to protect against some exploits including well known ones, any system can for example succome to a DDOS attack no matter its protection.

You agreed about the “its the sort of equivalent of leaving your car unlocked on the drive overnight and expecting to still be there in the morning in the same condition and untouched !!!!” statement by fastman.

My reasoning is far more simple, if someone wants to have your Ferrari away they will. Doors locked or open. If they want it its not gonna matter to them if it takes 1 minute or 1 hour to gain access.

Blaming an individual or organisation for not “protecting” itself is ludicrous… Would you also blame victims of burgulary for not having a good enough lock or victims of GBH for not having a weapon to protect thereself?